Participants of the World Floorball Championships 2014 will be decided in qualifications at the end of January. One of the six regional qualification tournaments will be played in Valmiera, Latvia on 28th January – 1st February 2014. Five teams will take part in this tournament – Norway, Latvia, Hungary, Italy and Liechtenstein. As the fourth participant we introduce – Team Hungary.

 

Hungary is currently ranked 16th in the IFF Rankings which are based on standings in two previous World Floorball Championships (WFC). Historically the best results for Hungary were 10th place in WFC 1996, 12th place in WFC 2006 (2nd in B-Division) and 13th place in WFC 2004 (3rd in B-Division). In 2010 Hungary failed to qualify for WFC Final Round, losing the decisive match to Denmark, but in 2012 they qualified as the best 3rd placed team in 3 European qualification groups. This time around Hungary is looking to duplicate 2 years old success.

 

Team Manager of Hungary István Horváth: “The most important goal of our team is to progress, play well and put ourselves in good position to qualify for World Championships in Gothenburg. Our preparation process for this tournament was good, although playing more friendly matches would have been better. Since the last WFC our National team has changed a bit – we have some new players and a new coach - Zoltán Bedő.”

 

15 players on the National team are playing in Hungarian Championships, with the most representatives coming from “Phoenix Fireball SE” (5 players) and “Dunai Krokodilok SE” (4 players). 5 players are playing for lower division clubs in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland.

 

Team roster:

 

Number	Player	Position	Club
2	Oliver Schmidt	Defender	Nykvams (SWE)
4	Zoltán Rési	Forward	Phoenix Fireball SE
5	Zoltán Kálmán Pap	Forward	Floorball Team Future
6	Gergely Kovács	Defender	IBK Cartoon Heroes
7	Csaba Pazsák	Forward	Dunai Krokodilok SE
9	Péter Kiss	Forward	Dunaújvárosi Főiskola-RFT
10	Tamás Bozsó	Defender	Dunai Krokodilok SE
11	Tamás Rési	Defender	Phoenix Fireball SE
12	Bálint Frischmann	Forward	Phoenix Fireball SE
13	Dennis Schmidt	Forward	Kvarnen (SWE)
14	András Dávid	Forward	IBK Cartoon Heroes
15	Péter Dombauer	Forward	Dunai Krokodilok SE
16	Christian Kapetz	Defender	Floda IBK (SWE)
17	Árpád Illyés	Forward	Phoenix Fireball SE
18	János Müller	Forward	Phoenix Fireball SE
20	Domokos Rácz	Forward	Ilves Salibandy (FIN)
21	Ádám Zsoldos	Forward	IBK Cartoon Heroes
31	Adrian Zsolt Scherrer	Goalkeeper	Rheintal Gators (SUI)
55	Krisztián Havas	Goalkeeper	Dunai Krokodilok SE
88	Balázs Kiss	Goalkeeper	Dunaújvárosi Főiskola-RFT

 

Head Coach: Zoltan Bedo

Physiotherapist: Erzsebet Lak

Team Manager: Istvan Horvath

 

Hungary will play the first match on 28.01. against Latvia. Full game schedule can be found here.

 

In each qualification group teams play each other once. In 4 European groups two best teams from each qualification group and the two best 3rd placed teams will qualify for the Final Round played in Gothenburg, Sweden on 5th -14th December 2014.